Soil Health Workshop for Vegetable Growers

Dec 5, 2024, 9:30 AM to 3 PM

🥬🌽🧅 Are you a vegetable grower? 🫑🥔🍠

🗓 If so, join us on December 05, 2024, at the Tiashoke Farm Store (11834 NYS Route 40, Schaghticoke) for a full day of presentations and discussions focusing on soil health concepts and best management practices for vegetable growers. (1.75 DEC pesticide recertification credits available in categories 1A, 10, and 23.)

🌱 Topics include tarping, maintaining soil health in high tunnels, cover cropping, reduced tillage, compost microbiology, and more!

🎤 Presenters include: Joseph Amsili, Cornell University and New York Soil Health Initiative; Nadim Atalla, Founder & Soil Health Specialist at Mycoscope; Crystal Stewart-Courtens, CCE Eastern NY Commercial Horticulture Program and Philia Farm; Jean-Paul Stewart-Courtens, Philia Farm; Jud Reid, CCE Cornell Vegetable Program and Harvest NY; Kitty O'Neil, CCE Harvest NY; and Kate Girard, NRCS.

🍲🥗 Workshop attendees will enjoy a hearty, locally sourced lunch prepared by local chef Helen McIntosh.

✏️ The cost for the full day (including lunch) is $30/person, with a discounted rate for additional attendees from the same farming operation. Register online at www.agstewardship.org/events.

🤝 This workshop is supported in part by a Soil Health Stewards Grant funded through USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service and administered by American Farmland Trust, Cornell Cooperative Extension, with participation from Cornell CALS, the NY Soil Health Initiative, NRCS, and ASA's Business Sponsors.

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